Software process white box modelling for FEAST/1

doi:10.1016/S0164-1212(99)00012-6

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Software process white box modelling for FEAST/1

1999-04-01

Wernick, P *

Lehman, MM

DOI：10.1016/S0164-1212(99)00012-6

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This paper describes a high-level system dynamics model of a real-world software evolution process. This process is implementing embedded software elements of a defence system composed of hardware and software components. The model is one of the outputs of the FEAST/1 project, which is investigating the role and effect of feedback in the global software process. The simple feedback-based model, which has resulted from a top to down modelling approach, demonstrates the influence of the global process on the evolution of the software specification and implementation. Model outputs closely simulate actual and expected metrics for the real-world project. It is concluded inter alia that feedback external to a software production process may significantly influence that process. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

laws of software evolution

system dynamics

software process

modeling

simulation

feedback

FEAST

E-type systems

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